Stopped playing main story after the interesting mission to recover the crawling robot bug with Jackie, as read about how it will go downhill after that and now the big choom is safely waiting around, at Afterlife enjoying a digital beer or chatting up pixel girls maybe...
Don't want to play this clumsy fixed linear storyline to a bunch of predictably bad endings, don't aim to subject myself to relic malfunctions or the horrendously annoying Keanu fetish that resulted in the entire story being hijacked by Johnny Silverhand.
Instead treating it as my open world adventure, used mods to open up the map and bypass limits on exploration, using console to get items, money, implants, avoid the restrictive gameplay, customise my outfits, looks, cars, apartments, weapons and environment to be more akin to the vision I had for the cyberpunk vision of an 'open world' game.
Now I just vicariously 'live' in The Mansion, Night City, (perpetually Pre-Heist) exploring anywhere I like, engaging in routine random encounters and side jobs, experimenting, customising every aspect I can via mods, ( just as I did with Skyrim). I will wait and see what happens, with DLC etc, maybe one day we can escape the need for the irritating Johnny, forget about 'endings' and simply add on new exciting expansion content. I simply want to look the way I want, go where I want without limits, endlessly engage and explore.
I am waiting for more ways to interact with the truly amazing Night City once (hopefully) they finally introduce ways of transforming it from an inert but beautiful backdrop into a place where we can actually have things that work, interact, engage and function... and NPC's and AI systems to match that vision.. the ideal would be a true VR version.
I don't need a story, in virtual worlds I AM the story, and for me it's about 'being there'